I would have suggested that the rabid 'Right/White Evangelical Christian vote' is a much smaller number than we imagine, BUT, have a loud voice, are organised and have a large visible presence. Clearly a major factor in US politics as is the highly vocal and influential Jewish diaspora who only account for 2% of the religious.
Almost a quarter of Americans are not associated with any organised religion.
Just looking for an overview of religion in the USA. Quick Wiki grab....
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The most popular religion in the U.S. is
Christianity, comprising the majority of the population (73.7% of adults in 2016), with the majority of American Christians belonging to a
Protestant denomination or a Protestant offshoot (such as
Mormonism or the
Jehovah's Witnesses).
[56] According to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies newsletter published March 2017, based on data from 2010, Christians were the largest religious population in all 3,143 counties in the country.
[57] Roughly 48.9% of Americans are
Protestants, 23.0% are
Catholics, 1.8% are
Mormons (members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
[56] Christianity was introduced during the period of
European colonization. The United States has the
world's largest Christian population.
[58][59]
According to membership statistics from current reports and official web sites, the five largest Christian denominations are:
- The Catholic Church in the United States, 71,000,000 members[60]
- The Southern Baptist Convention, 13,680,493 members[61]
- The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 8,415,100 members[62]
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6,920,086 members[63]
- The United Methodist Church, 5,714,815 members[64]
The Southern Baptist Convention, with over 13 million adherents, is the largest of more than 200
[65] distinctly named Protestant denominations.
[66] In 2007, members of
evangelical churches comprised 26% of the American population, while another 18% belonged to
mainline Protestant churches, and 7% belonged to historically
black churches.
[67]
A 2015 study estimates some 450,000 Christian believers from a Muslim background in the country, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism.
[68] In 2010 there were approximately 180,000
Arab Americans and about 130,000
Iranian Americans who converted from Islam to Christianity. Dudley Woodbury, a Fulbright scholar of Islam, estimates that 20,000 Muslims convert to Christianity annually in the
United States.
[69]
However, this gives further granularity into religion and politics:
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https://www.pewresearch.org/politic...s-groups-and-religiously-unaffiliated-voters/
I think now I see the scale of the problem for the Democrats!
